[b]Jan Mieszkowski
French literature: The devil wanted me to do it
British literature: The devil begged me to do it
German literature: The devil paid me to do it
Russian literature: I am the devil and I didn’t do it![/b]
American literature: nytimes.com/books/best-sell … r-fiction/
Your philosophical hero at age
12: Ziggy Stardust
16: Zarathustra
20: Foucault
24: Deleuze
28: a bot that retweets every tweet with the word Deleuze
At my age: godot.
Freud: It’s not you, it’s your id
Marx: It’s not you, it’s your alienated labor
Levinas: It’s not you, it’s your Other
Twitter: It’s you
In 280 characters or less.
Volume 1 of Marx’s Kapital was published 154 years ago today in Hamburg. You can buy the first edition from an Austrian Antiquariat, but it’ll cost you US$ 304,095.11.
If only promethean75 were still around to take advantage of it.
Plato: Leave the cave
Heidegger: Leave the metropolis
Nietzsche: Leave me alone
iambiguous? You tell me.
Philosophy begins
Plato: in confusion
Aristotle: in wonder
Kierkegaard: with dread
Sartre: when Che lights your cigar
Really, Che lit his cigar.